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Year Date Event AD. 1298 The reign of Osman I, founder of the Ottoman Empire, began. 1302: July 27: Battle of Bapheus. The first war between the Ottomans and Byzantines. 1326: Orhan Gazi's accession to the throne. 1326: Siege of Bursa. The Ottomans conquered Bursa. After the conquest the city was the capital. 1329: June 10–11: Battle of ...
Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Empire, [ j] historically and colloquially known as the Turkish Empire, [ 24][ 25] was an imperial realm [ k] centred in Anatolia that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe between the early 16th ...
History of Turkey. The Ottoman Empire was founded c. 1299 by Osman I as a small beylik in northwestern Asia Minor just south of the Byzantine capital Constantinople. In 1326, the Ottomans captured nearby Bursa, cutting off Asia Minor from Byzantine control.
The sultans of the Ottoman Empire ( Turkish: Osmanlı padişahları ), who were all members of the Ottoman dynasty (House of Osman), ruled over the transcontinental empire from its perceived inception in 1299 to its dissolution in 1922. At its height, the Ottoman Empire spanned an area from Hungary in the north to Yemen in the south and from ...
Year. Date. Event. 1100s. 12th century renaissance in the Byzantine Empire, revival of art, architecture and economic activity. 1101. Kılıç Arslan I defeats Stephen of Blois and Hugh of Vermandois of the second wave of First Crusades at the Battle of Mersivan (near modern Merzifon, Amasya Province, Central Anatolia.) 1107.
Babylonian and Persian periods (586–332 BCE). [4]The Babylonian period began with the destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar II in 587 or 586 BCE. The Persian period spans the years 539–332 BCE, from the time Cyrus II of Persia ("the Great") conquered the Neo-Babylonian Empire, to the conquest of the region by Alexander the Great.
The Ottoman Empire in 1683, at the start of the Great Turkish War (1683–1699) The Ottoman Empire's power and prestige peaked in the 16th and 17th centuries, particularly during the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent.
The Middle East was the first to experience a Neolithic Revolution (c. the 10th millennium BCE), as well as the first to enter the Bronze Age (c. 3300–1200 BC) and Iron Age (c. 1200–500 BC). Historically human populations have tended to settle around bodies of water, which is reflected in modern population density patterns.